Re: [boost] [Everyone!] VC 7.1: "'detail' : ambiguous symbol"

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-04 02:50:33

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

>>     1) Make me fix the graph library with a bunch of using
>> declarations instead of the blanket "using namespace boost::spirit;"
>> that causes the problem. But, users might still run into this issue.
>>     2) Keep on qualifying "detail" references until it stops causing
>> problems
>>     3) Stop using "detail" and instead use "[lib]_detail" that is
>> different for each lib.
>
> As much as I hate it, (2) seems the only viable option.

I sorta think 3 is a reasonable possibility.  I found all the details to be a
problem in Boost.Python, which has multiple subnamespaces.

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Dave Abrahams
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